When I was very young (under 5), I thought the maps on the news weather reports were supposed to look like different animals. Always perturbed me when I couldn't figure out which animal.
A childhood belief about tv

others believed things like this
- I thought weather forecasters were psychic and that's how they knew what the weather would be.Anon
- When I was very young, I thought that God was married to Mother Nature, and that together they made weather.Anon
- when i was really young, i couldn't figure out why i can't get older than my older sister.— angela
- As a young child I thought that sheep and poodles were the same animal.— Jane
- I used to believe that "euthenasia" was "youth in Asia", and I couldn't figure why that was A Bad Thing.— Kellye
- I used to believe that the maps for the United States and Texas were identical.— JTexas